PAGE FQtJR Otyp iaily Collegian Successor to THE est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1984, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879, Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ ers* not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Marr Krasnaniky Edward Shanken Editor Business Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE Editorial staff: Bob Fraser, night editor; Joan Kuntz, Lavonne' Althouse, Dave ■ Jones, copy editors; Dot Bennett, Richard Rau, Lorraine Gladus, Jean Gardner, Nancy Ward, Marilyn Yingst, ina Finkle, Diehl McKalip, Philip Austin, assistants. Ad staff: Joan Morosini, manager; Dick Smith, assistant. Courage Shown By Cabinet Action While it is true that a good many times All- College Cabinet becomes bogged down in the details of student government, advocates of uni versity student government had reason to be happy over the action of cabinet in voicing its opposition to the Pechan loyalty oath bill. In days when the advocates of anything'just a little left of slavery is labeled “communist,” cabinet’s clear-cut opposition to the Pechan bill stands out as an act of courageous leader ship. Penn State’s student government thus joins the University of Pittsburgh’s in opposing the loyalty oath. ' Cabinet’s action must be called courageous since it comes at a time when mere opposition to such legislation is enough to warrant the red label being hurled by every irresponsible demagogue and by many in positions of re sponsibility. Cabinet's action also comes at a time when the people of the Commonwealth have either to speak up or forever hold their peace. Of the 23 members of cabinet, 17 voted in favor of the resolution condemning the bill. The six others decided to abstain. We have no quar rel with these six, for we are certain that they acted in as good faith as those who supported the resolution. , We hope, however, that those who did decide to abstain did not do so because they felt that such a resolution was not in the realm of stu dent government. In the words of the resolu tion, we, as students, “press the belief that we have both the right and the responsibility to intelligent concern, over the academic free dom of those who serve as our teachers.” There is no doubt in the minds of virtually every responsible educational leader and in the minds of the state’s leading newspaper editors that the Pechan bill would do nothing but undermine and eventually destroy academic freedom as we know it. If ihe Pechan bill is such a threat to aca demic freedom—and cabinet evidently felt it is—then student government could have taken no other action than it did. Cabinet would have failed in its responsibility to the student body, to the faculty, and to the Col lege had it done less. Cooperation Must Be Reciprocal When Marilyn Williams, Women’s Recreation Association president, spoke up in All-College Cabinet Tuesday night to ask for cooperation among student leaders, she would have done well to have heeded her own advice. Miss Williams’ request for cooperation came as the result of the cancelation- of a dance scheduled for tonight which would have been sponsored by the Women’s Student Government Association. The dance was canceled, Miss Wil liams said, because Tribunal had refused to grant exemptions from customs for freshman men. Miss Williams, in voting against cabinet approval of the Kickoff dance,, sponsored by the Campus Chest, contended that therWSGA dance, placed on the Student Union calendar last spring, had been shunted to the sideline in favor of the Kickoff. . Miss Williams said the dance had been can celed because Tribunal had refused to lift frosh customs. The fact is, however, that the dance was postponed Monday afternoon; Tribunal did not meet until Monday night. Chances are that Tribunal would have found it .necessary to refuse to call off dating customs for the dance since it then had requests for similar action for. tonight, next Saturday, Oct. 6 and Oct. 13. What is'the . use of dating customs if they are to be lifted every weekend? The fact is, in addition, that the WSGA had planned to turn over the profits from its dance to the Campus Chest, without taking the trouble to contact William Klisanin, chairman of the Chest. Speaking of cooperation, it might also be in teresting to note that when WSGA asked Tri bunal to lift customs for tonight’s postponed dance, Tribunal Chairman David Mutchler asked if, in turn, women’s customs would be lifted for another affair. The reply was a firm, “No.” Cooperation? Granted, girls, the Kickoff-dance was, because of necessity, rushed through. But cooperation like Pollock and Shortlidge roads, is a two-way street fHE DAILY CQLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA U. S. Has Room For Atheists,' too President Milton S. Eisenhower; at his. Con vocation speech last week, brought up a point of gravest consequence to the people of this country and of the, world. It is an issue so fun damental in our present struggle with com munism that, misunderstood, it could be catas trophic to world peace and to civilization itself. President Eisenhower raised the religious issue. , He first brought up a number of perfectly legitimate points of conflict between demo cracy and communism—the latter’s attack on . the individual' freedom which this country holds supreme, communism's worship of the abstract "state." and the totalitarianism which Americans believe an intolerable form of government. But he also raised an issue which is com pletely irrelevant- to the conflict. He brought in the fallacious argument that this is a struggle of the Judeo-Christian West against the. godless' Reds. By so arguing, he did two things! He at tacked the fundamental right of the American individual to worship any God or gods he chooses, or io worship no god at all. And he fostered the belief—a false one—that the United States opposes communists because they do not recognize the existence of a deity. For religious freedom in America extends to non-religious freedom, and there can be no more discrimination - here against the man without a god than there can be against the most uncompromising believer in seven-day creation. Attacks on the civil rights of the atheists are as dangerous a form of intolerance as , attacks on religious minorities. Perhaps of- still more basic importance in the present inflammable world situation is the second idea, the belief that America opposes Russia for its denial of God. Throughout history, •the bloodiest holocausts, the most ungodly re versions to sheer animal savagery, have been the religious '-wars. The misguided efforts of one group to force its one religion upon another have been responsible for the Spanish Inquisi tion, the Polish pogroms, and the crucifixion of Christ. So let us draw the issue clearly in the battle against communism. We do not oppose com munism in its fostering of atheism, but iii its, attack on the individual’s freedom to decide for! himself how or whether he wishes to 'worship God. This is not a struggle between the godly and the godless. America finds room for the free godless, too, in its camp. Customs Just two years ago, customs had their revival on this College campus. And this year, with the .largest number of freshman women on campus we have ever had,' we see an opportunity for a spirited body of freshman women. . However, it seems that upperclasswomen are not putting their “all” into customs. It has been noted that on the “hello walks” freshman wo men say hello and' the upperclasswomen ignore them.' How can we possibly expect the freshman women to get into the spirit of things when they are completely looked down upon by ’ upperj.. class women? Customs' are supposed to make ’ these girls feel at home, and they are also to increase spirit and fun. This will be impossible if women students , continue to shrug their shoulders at-customs; > , ~;J’ 0 j We do not encourage excessive "hazing” of freshman women, but the least we can do is make them feel as if they are really parti cipating in customs,, not, just a "run-of-the mill" process of wearing a green bow. and a name card. The freshman women certainly have the spirit of things. Let’s instill some of this spirit in our upperclasswomen, 'Le.t’s .make women’s customs a worthwhile activity,for;all persons"involved. —Mimi Ungar * * * Please, Upper Class Women, , . Cooperate on Customs-Frosh v "'' TO THE EDITOR: Although wb have only been under customs for five days, already we have found something amiss in the attitude of the .upperclasswomen toward the spirit of freshman customs. According to our understand ing of freshman customs, the purpose of them is to make us feel at home at Penn State and to encourage school spirit. We really enjoy sing ing and cheering in large groups or curtseying when we are requested to do so in a' friendly manner; but we strenuously object to saying “hello” to a blank stare. Please, ■ upperclass women, cooperate with the spirit of customs and answer our “hellos” with at least a . smile. —Marcia MacDonald, Arlene Jones, Bev erly Wilson,. Joan Packard, Lois Ann Logan, Dolores Wilson, Trina Mogle, Mickey Courson, Judy KinzeL Gazette... Saturday, Sepiembr 22 ALPHA PHI OMEGA, business and organi zation meeting September 24, 3 Sparks, 7:30 p.m. . PENN STATE ENGINEER, September 24, 410 Old Main, 7 p.m. Sunday, September 23 ■ FROTH, circulation staf£ candidates, and all persons interested, 3 Carnegie Hall, 7:15 p.m. HILLEL CHOIR, organization meeting, Hillel, 2 p.m. . ? HILLEL HOUR radio program,--organization meeting, Hillel,. 7:30 pun. —Ron Bonn That, today, is the Korean War. It is not only the private in the UN Army • Moreover, the Korean conflict is an free world that it will remain unfettered. At the moment, the Korean war has taken a secondary place to a Korean truce. The- UN, of course., should not falter in offering the North Korean' Communists every, opportunity to express their desire -in’ an attempt to- find a compromise solution. ’ But therein lies the rub. With a North Korea ruled by Kremlin puppets,' peace will be a. very fragile thing indeed. Even a tehr. mile buffer zone between' the Northern and Southern antagon ists is little hope for a permanent cessation of tlie war. Buffer states in the past were of no. conse quence when the aggressor was ready to march. Buffer zones, if anything, afford the potential aggressor the opportunity to'.anh for attack 1 while his idealistic neighbor blissfully moves through a short-lived peace economy. Such an arrangement in Ko xea will- result- in a "West-Easi' Germany" type of settlement," a diplomatic headache two . steps too close- to a renewal of war. By MOYLAN MILLS' - For two years now I’ve heard plenty of gripes about Penn 1 State coeds. They’re this, they’re .that, they’re another thing, and appar ently not too many males on campus have been satisfied with thiem. Seems this state of affairs was generally, accepted, until . I wan dered into Recreation Hall during registration and met two out-Of towners literally drooling over “our”' girls. One guy, a graduate student from the University of Pennsyl vania, was.-: standing at the' en trance to Rec Hall in utter amaze ment.. His only comment , was, “Penn was never like this.” . A visitor from Harvard last week end claimed he’s never seen so many gorgeous females in all his life. Six times he had to be told that they were real This was a complete shock after .being indoctrinated for two years in. a totally different way. So I salute this year's co- Little Man On Campus "This will always work if you febl you're burdened with an extra class." FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES Korean Trace By LEN KOLASINSKI . No other issue can be more-basic than the, struggle for survival. The Old Millstream SEPTEMBER'22,' 1951 a fight for life that includes but the mightiest of. nations, expression on the part of the If that is why the lives are being wasted in the Korean conflict., the: price is too great.' The "'only-.real solution to the problem is a unification of Ko rea. ' The' battle , now is confined to small ■; deadly skirmishes for stra tegic hills with neither side as yet, willing to commit its re sources to an all-out effort. -The hope for .a resumption of armis tice . talks at. Kaesong has been given as one reason for this lull. However, neither side has the advantage of a clear-cut victory with which-it can bludgeon its opponent into accepting tenns for an enduring armistice. Stale mate on the battlefield is as fruit less and.-unsatisfactory a weapon for the-'diplomatic - conclusion of war as is-a 0-0 score on the grid iron for -the old alma mater. The UN. co.uld-not even have the sat isfaction- of walking away from the c o.n f 1 i-c t content that’, it achieved a moral victory by hold ing a superior team to a score less tie.’ eds and .would like to comment that the frosh girls are; cex T iainly doing their part -in es tablishing a new reputation for Penn State women. Maybe im ports are a thing of the past.. * * » Speaking of the frosh,- -batmen and upperclassmen have -b-e e.n amazed by the terrific-spirit- and cooperation shown by the new comers in the West. Dorm:..area. Keep it up, frosh, you’ll; iben-re warded later on. Incidentallyy-the favorite male, .pastime” in'- the (Continued, on pagejive) By Bibler
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